AutoCAD
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Following on from the introduction to this series – and to the Kinect for Windows v2 sensor – it's time to take a closer look at some of the AutoCAD integration samples. At the core of the Kinect sensor's capabilities are really two things: the ability to capture depth data and to detect people's bodies […]
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Last Friday Microsoft announced a preview SDK for Kinect for Windows 2. As the first public release of the SDK, it seems a good time to publish an initial set of samples for readers to play with. These are very much a work in progress – I tend to restart AutoCAD between Kinect Fusion captures, […]
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A few weeks ago I received the official retail version of Kinect for Windows 2 (having signed up for the pre-release program I had the right to two sensors: the initial developer version and the final retail version). After some initial integration work to get the AutoCAD-Kinect samples working with the pre-release Kinect SDK, I […]
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Over the last few months I've had a number of people ask me for an update to this 6-year old post on implementing a CAD standards plugin for AutoCAD (which in turn was based on code from an older DevNote created from a much older VB6 sample). Augusto Gonçalves from the ADN team very kindly […]
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Sometimes you just need to ease back into work after a few weeks off. So today I decided to have a go at integrating DogeSharp – a programming language on top of of .NET inspired by Dogescript – into AutoCAD. There was absolutely no reason to do so, other than to cause myself some amusement. […]
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The next few posts may seem a bit anomalous – yes, I more commonly write about programming with AutoCAD – but then I've been sitting on a variety of beaches on the Greek island of Andros for the best part of the last two weeks, so for now it's all I have to write about. […]
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In this recent post we saw how to set our geographic location inside an AutoCAD drawing – essentially geo-referencing the model it contains – programmatically. In today's post we're going to capture a section of the displayed map and embed it inside the drawing, much as the GEOMAPIMAGE command does. In fact, we're going to […]
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AutoCAD's geo-location API is a topic I've been meaning (and even promising) to cover for some time now. So here we are. 🙂 The below code sample is based on one shown at ADN's DevDays tour at the end of 2013 – for the AutoCAD 2014 release – but the API ended up not being […]
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In the first post in this series, we talked a little about product security in AutoCAD and why having a JavaScript API doesn't make AutoCAD less secure. We also took the chance to talk about the SECURELOAD mechanism, mainly saying that it's a good thing. Today we're going to talk about why it's such a […]
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We've been getting some interesting responses back from the AutoCAD Security Survey that has been posted over on the AutoCAD Futures beta forum. (If you haven't already responded, we'd appreciate you taking the time to do so: it'll probably take you less time than reading the rest of this blog post. Then please come back […]